The shooting occurred as undercover officers were conducting a sting operation in the case about 2:30 p.m. in the 6300 block of McCart Avenue in South Fort Worth, said Sgt. Raymond Bush, a department spokesman.

Bush said members of the robbery unit, along with the narcotics and zero-tolerance officers, had been working to identify a suspect in a series of heists in which victims were robbed when they met the suspect to conduct Craiglist transactions — typically involving items like tennis shoes.

Officers set up a meeting with the suspect, who had not been identified Tuesday. When they moved in to arrest him, he displayed a handgun in the waistband of his pants and was shot once by a uniformed officer, Bush said. The officer wasn’t named.

No officers were injured, Bush said. The man was in stable condition at an area hospital.

Police detained a second suspect, who also had not been identified.

The officer was placed on administrative leave, pending an investigation

Jury selection is underway today for a hearing to determine whether a man is competent to stand trial in a death penalty case.

Defense attorneys are expected to argue that Kenneth Wayne Thomas is mentally retarded and does not understand the legal proceedings.

Dallas County prosecutors believe Thomas, 53, is competent.

Thomas was convicted in separate trials of killing attorney Fred Finch and his wife, math professor, Mildred Finch. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a new punishment hearing in 2010

If a jury finds Thomas competent, the punishment hearing would begin later this week.

Another jury, which has already been selected, will then determine whether Thomas is sentenced to death or life without parole.

After the first trial, prosecutors leaded that one of the jurors was on probation for felony theft. Fearing the courts would overturn the conviction in 66-year-old Fred Finch’s death, the district attorney’s office tried Thomas for the slaying of Mildred Finch, 64, who taught at El Centro Community College.

Thomas stabbed Fred Finch 20 times and Mildred Finch 80 times while burglarizing their South Dallas home in 1986 .

Thomas is borderline retarded, according to court records. He was born in the back seat of a car and the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. He had “significant” development delays and walk until age 2.

At 16, he was assaulted and pistol whipped at the park where he worked. He suffered an injury to the front of the right side of his brain.

He also has reduced impulse control that can result in violence, court records show. Medication could help.

The new punishment hearing was ordered because jurors could not previously consider whether low intelligence, brain damage, and mental illness should have resulted in a life sentence rather than death.

A previous prosecutor, George West, who is no longer with the district attorney’s office, said after a previous jury gave a death sentence: “This guy is Dallas’ Jason of (the movie) Friday The 13th, and it’s good society can be rid of him.”

Attorneys for Eric Williams will be in a Rockwall court this morning asking for a later trial date in his capital murder trial. He is accused of killing Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia, and his top assistant Mark Hasse.

Eric and Kim Williams

Jury selection is set to begin March 28 with the trial tentatively set to begin Oct. 20.

The trial has been moved from Kaufman County to Rockwall County.

Special prosecutors Bill Wirskye and Toby Shook are seeking the death penalty against Williams, who is being held in the Kaufman County Jail in lieu of $23 million bail.

Williams’ wife, Kim, also faces capital murder charges in the slayings. She is being held in lieu of $10 million bail. Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will seek the death penalty against Kim Williams, whose case was not moved from Kaufman County Friday.

The killings shocked and terrified the Kaufman County community, starting with the Jan. 31, 2013, slaying of Hasse. The 57-year-old career prosecutor was gunned down as he walked to the downtown Kaufman courthouse.

Two months later, McLelland 63, and his wife, Cynthia, 65, were slain in their home near Forney over Easter weekend.

Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were gunned down in their Forney home over Easter weekend.

A Kaufman County grand jury indicted the Williamses in June. Kim Williams, 47, filed for divorce from her husband that same day and the divorce is pending.

Authorities have said the couple hatched the murder plot after McLelland and Hasse prosecuted Eric Williams in a theft and burglary case that resulted in his removal as a justice of the peace in 2012. He also lost his law license.

Eric Williams was sentenced to probation in that case, even though Hasse and McLelland had argued that he should receive the maximum two-year prison sentence.

The case left the couple in dire financial straits and without health insurance, Kim Williams said before her arrest.

State District Judge Mike Snipes, a Dallas County felony court judge, has been assigned to oversee the case.

Late Monday night, my fiancée and I took our dogs out in our gated front yard in the Cedars neighborhood south of downtown Dallas. My fiancée noticed a man threatening another man with a large stick down the street.

I called Dallas 911 and reported what we’d seen. I told the dispatcher that the men were walking north on our street, toward downtown. I gave as good a description as I could of the two men, and I was told police were on the way.

The men continued to bicker, now in front of our home. Five minutes passed.

As we watched from inside, the man with the stick started beating the other man, including on his head. He knocked the victim into the street. A car drove past without stopping.

I called 911 again as soon as the assault began. This time, I was admittedly more animated and insisted that police and an ambulance get to the scene immediately.

Officers got there within a few minutes of my second call, but the attacker ran away with some of the victim’s belongings, which made the crime an aggravated robbery. The responding officers searched but weren’t able to find him. I came outside to speak to officers and the victim.

The victim, who said he was homeless and that his name was Ira Wrigley, 47, was bleeding from his mouth. That didn’t stop him from asking me repeatedly for money. Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics treated him on the scene and quickly left. Minutes later, he told a Dallas police officer he wanted to be taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital for treatment.

Paramedics returned and, despite the man’s pleas, refused to take Wrigley to the hospital. The injuries to his face and head didn’t warrant transportation by ambulance, they told him. He could go to Parkland on his own.

Luckily for Wrigley, one of the Dallas officers agreed to take him to the hospital. He got in the back of the police cruiser with a bag of snacks and water that my fiancée packed for him.

Former Kaufman County Justice of the Peace Eric Williams has been permanently removed from office as he awaits trial in the killings of the Kaufman County district attorney, his wife and a top assistant, officials announced Tuesday.

The trial court's order to permanently remove Williams from office came after an appeals court recently upheld his burglary and theft convictions for stealing county computer equipment.

The trial court judge had initially ordered that Williams be removed from office after the jury found him guilty in the spring of 2012. But the order could not be finalized until the appeals court ruling came down.

Johnny Perry has been filling Williams' vacancy as a temporary appointment since that time. Now with Williams' permanent removal, Kaufman County officials announced that officials will be taking applications until Oct. 23 for those interested in the position.

On Oct. 25, the Kaufman County commissioner's court will hold a special meeting to interview applicants and appoint someone to fill the spot.

Williams and his wife, Kim Wililams, who also faces capital murder charges, both remain in the Kaufman County jail.

Prosecutors have already said that they plan to seek the death penalty against Eric Williams.

He is accused in the Jan. 31 slaying of assistant Kaufman County prosecutor Mark Hasse, 57, who was gunned down as he walked to the downtown Kaufman courthouse. Authorities say he then killed District Attorney Mike McLelland, 63, and his wife, Cynthia, 65, in their Forney home over Easter weekend.

Authorities have said the couple hatched the murder plot after McLelland and Hasse prosecuted Eric Williams in the theft and burglary case. He also lost his law license.

A Dallas County jury Thursday convicted a 19-year-old man of capital murder in the beating death of his girlfriend’s toddler.

State District Judge Robert Burns sentenced Alex Roberson to an automatic sentence of life without parole in the murder of 20-month of Trey Jenkins.

The injuries that killed Trey indicated he suffered a brutal beating in July 2012.

Twenty-month-old Trey Jenkins feeds his baby sister. He was beaten to death in July 2012 by his mother's boyfriend.

The boy was so badly beaten from behind that his kidneys moved to the front of his body and he suffered 13 broken ribs. His liver was lacerated, his adrenal glands were destroyed and his lungs collapsed, according to testimony.

Trey’s mother was at the store when paramedics were called to their Love Field-area home. Roberson told police that the boy became lifeless and got a bloody nose during a diaper change.

Roberson changed his story about what happened during two interviews. One interview was recorded on audiotape. The second was captured on video.

A mistrial was declared in a previous trial in June when jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict. Jurors at that trial voted to 10-2 in favor of guilt.

Around 11:26 p.m. on Aug. 24, Haven along with several other individuals arrived at 3115 Pennsylvania Ave., according to police. A dispute broke out when Lewis pulled his vehicle into the driveway to prevent them from unloading a motorcycle.

According to the arrest affidavit, Lewis went inside his house and when he came back out, Haven fatally shot Lewis in the head.

Haven, a member of the Outcast Motorcycle Club who also goes by “Hawk,” voluntarily went to Dallas Police Headquarters after Detective Derick Chaney made contact with him. Chaney read him his rights and Haven admitted to the shooting.

Haven was in and out of the criminal justice system in the late ’90s and early 2000s. His probation was revoked for possession in 1997 and 1998. He also plead guilty to evading arrest and possession in 1998, and theft in 2005.

The Texas death penalty system has improved but still has a long way to go to be fair in its administration of justice according to a new report from the American Bar Association. The report says the state needs to do better in several areas including treatment of the mentally retarded and mentally ill, interrogation procedures, preservation of biological evidence.and the standard of defense representation. One of the more interesting recommendations is that state law should require a public hearing in clemency requests by death row inmates.

“Some of these problems, standing alone, may not appear to be significant,” the report noted, but “their harms are cumulative.” The report tallies up the costs, including the fact that the innocent may be convicted and the guilty may remain free to commit additional crimes. The state has paid more than $60 million to the wrongfully convicted, it says, “money that could have been applied more effectively to find the “right guy” the first time around.”

The Texas Capital Punishment Assessment Team included numerous prominent Texans: Jennifer Laurin, professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law; former Texas governor Mark White, former U.S. attorney Paul Coggins, retired U.S. District judge W. Royal Furgeson, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Deborah Hankinson; Ronald Breaux of Haynes and Boone LLP in Dallas; professor Ana Otero of the Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University; and Charles Terrell Sr., founder of Safer Dallas.

A Dallas woman was arrested Sunday night after an argument over a man ended in a knife fight between her and a second woman.

Leah Odle, 32, was booked into the Dallas County Jail on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and retaliation, according to jail records.

Police responded to a call at a gas station parking lot in the 5000 block of East R.L. Thornton Highway near Samuell Grand Park around 9:30 p.m. They found the victim, 44-year-old Monica Alvarez, stabbed in her right forearm.

Odle told officers the man who was the catalyst in the argument was her boyfriend, and Alvarez was mad because she couldn’t have him, police said.

Alvarez told police the argument escalated when Odle pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the right forearm. At this point, Alvarez said she pulled out a knife of her own to defend herself.

After she was handcuffed, Odle, who suffered several small cuts to her left forearm, told officers, “When I get out, I’m going to kill her!”

Alvarez was taken to Baylor University Medical Center, and Odle was treated at the scene for her injuries.

The man whom they were fighting over fled the scene before police arrived.